Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
RACE: Are we so different?
The American Anthropological Association presents the science, history and lived experience of race in the United States in Smithsonian National History Museum […]
Where did all the sociologists go? Querying ‘the lecturer experience’
The new government’s announcements of forthcoming changes to the workings of British higher education have inspired much debate. The major newspapers have […]
Lords recommend appointment of Chief Social Scientist
The recommendation by the House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-Committee’s report Behaviour Change, published today (20 July), to appoint an independent […]
Evidence-based policy-making: report by UK parliamentary committee
A report published by the UK’s House of Lords Science and Technology Sub-committee on behavioural change policy finds that ‘nudges’ and similar […]
Supporting Effective Communication and Workflows in Social Science Research
A guest post by Bernie Folan, Head of Journals Marketing in London Kindly re-posted with permission from Research Information Magazine. This also appears […]
David Brooks on “The Unexamined Society”
In a recent Opinion piece for the New York Times, columnist David Brooks argued for the value of behavioral studies and critiqued […]
Specialisation is back on the HE agenda, but not for the first time
This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Tamson Pietsch In June results were released of the pilot […]
Putting vision back into higher education: A response to the Government White Paper
There is no government mandate for the privatisation of higher education and for the despoiling of the social and cultural value of […]
